Mumbai is dirty! There are piles of refuse and waste littering the streets, the waterways are black and their banks littered with plastic. Its Hot, sweaty, smelly and crowded. There seems to be no plan in how the city has developed.
Mumbai is a city of contrast, with extremes from “wow!! to whoa!?”. From poverty to [...]
My time in Mumbai has been frantic. Over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I ran 12 one and half hour long sessions on the ITGS syllabus and assessments. It was intensive, demanding and immensely beneficial.
I frequently refer to Dale’s learning cone in my presentations and consider it as I teach, but this workshop reinforced the accuracy [...]
Wow, what a month. I am sitting rather comfortably in the lounge at Auckland Airport waiting for the first leg of my flight to Mumbai, India.
The last two weeks have been filled with preparing the 12 x 1.5 hour sessions for the workshop I am running. I had thought that my knowledge of the IB [...]
A handful of the best is one of the presentations I ran at uLearn09. The basis of this presentation is a collection of open source, free or great proprietory tools that I use in my classroom.
While the “software for schools” deal does provide a basic productivity suite for computers in schools and an OS it [...]
While I was in the States, I had the opportunity to visit Memphis Zoo. The Zoo was a little disappointing as I found many of the enclosures, particularly for the large carnivores to be limited and restrictive. However some of the newer spaces were very good.
I don’t want to enter into a debate about the [...]
Well, we are back in Memphis, we went out to the Rum Boogie Blues club last night, which was great.
This trip has been thought provoking and has challenged many preconceptions I had.
Yes, I did meet a couple (and only a couple) of “red neck” teachers, but the majority of the teachers I met were profoundly [...]
Its day 3…. The middle of the third innings and they are hitting home runs off a tough pitcher…
This is fun. The project is focusing on getting the teachers to have the students construct their learning. It is project based learning with a twist that is innovative and exciting – the problem that form the [...]
This is the latest in the series of starter sheets. This start sheet looks at the Word cloud generator called wordle – http://www.wordle.net
The starter sheet is available from: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
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Today was the first day of the 4 day process that we are working on with this school district.
The Morning saw Lee present a pair of stunning presentations on Understanding Digital Kids and Living on the Future Edge. Both of these were brilliant. The content was exciting and dynamic. The afternoon was mine.
My focus was [...]
Well I have arrived in Arkansas. And its flat, I am missing hills. Its a pretty state farm lands indespersed with patchs of woodlands.
The process of getting here has been quite long, but I had yesterday (saturday) to recuperate in Memphis. We went out last night to BB Kings house of Blues and had 4 [...]
